TABLESCAPE TUESDAY - Polka Dot Color Fun

Hi everyone!

Welcome to another Tablescape Tuesday!  I hope you had a great 4th of July weekend!!!  We sure did!   We had some friends over for 4th of July and it was a blast!   We also were able to purchase a beautiful new china cabinet from a friend of mine who is moving and needed to sell.  It just turned out that this china cabinet matches our dining room furniture so great!   And the price couldn't be beat! 

Here is a picture of our beautiful new addition to the HOME GIRL Household!



I just love having this.  I'm still working on filling it up, and I'm planning to get a few small cabinets to put on either side to fill out the wall, but I really like having a china cabinet!  It's my first one ever! 

I am hoping to try to match the china cabinet to my tables each week for our Sunday Family Dinners, if possible.

Speaking of Sunday Family Dinners...are you wondering what I'm talking about?   If so, here's a short blurb to familiarize you with this new thing we're doing here at the Home Girl Household!  If you've seen this before, feel free to skip this part!
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We started a new family tradition in January 2013 (a New Years' Resolution) that I hope continues even after the kids are grown.

"SUNDAY FAMILY DINNERS!"

We pretty much have dinner together as a family most nights, but on Sundays, we have a special dinner in the dining room as opposed to the kitchen table, where we normally eat.

I get out the fine china and candles and make a special meal and so far, it has been something we look forward to each week.

Then once a month, we invite some of our extended family to join us for a Sunday family dinner.

It's also been giving me a chance to do lots of new TABLESCAPES..haha!

To see my previous tablescapes from other Sunday Family Dinners, you can click here:

Sunday Family Dinner #1 - Red and Blue Toile
S.F.D.#2 - Black, White and Silver
S.F.D.#3 - Winter Woods With White
S.F.D.#4 - The "Royal Treatment"
S.F.D.#5 - Super Bowl Table
S.F.D. #6 - Mardi Gras Table
S.F.D. #7 - Spring is Springing Up
S.F.D. #8 - "Apple of My Eye"
S.F.D. #9 - "Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss"
S.F.D. #10 - The "KNego" Tablescape (Designed by my 9 year old son)
S.F.D. #11 - The St. Patrick's Day Tablescape
S.F.D. #12 - Last-Minute Lavender Tablescape
S.F.D. #13 - 3 Easter Tables
S.F.D. #14 - Wrapped In Love Tablescape
S.F.D. #15 - Wrapped Up in Family Tablescape
S.F.D. #16 - Orange You Ready for a Picnic Tablescape
S.F.D. #17 - Barbies and the Pink Shoes (Designed by my 6 year old daughter)
S.F.D. #18 - Simply Nautical but Nice Tablescape
S.F.D. #19 - Memorial Day Americana Table
S.F.D. #20 - Froggie Went a' Courtin' Tablescape
S.F.D. #21 - Simple Father's Day Tablescape

S.F.D.#22 - 4th of July Tablescape

 Because I'm on a budget but love to switch up my decor for the various tablescapes each week, I'm decorating my tables almost entirely on BARGAINS....finds from the Dollar Stores, Thrift Stores, or regular stores with sales or clearance items.

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So, for today's Sunday Family Dinner, I decided to use this inspiration of some great wrapping paper to make a table runner!  I just loved this colorful paper with the brown background!  

I paired it with a brown tablecloth.  I had originally tried white, but it turned out to be too much white when I added the plates and the candles, etc.  I think the brown makes the white pop a little more, as well as the colors!



For my centerpiece I wanted to keep it simple, and let the wrapping paper table runner take center stage.  So, I used three glass cylinders of varying sizes and filled them with water...then I added just a few drops of food coloring in the pink, blue, and green in the table.  I was surprised how little food coloring I needed to make these quite colorful! 

The food coloring was the "neon" colors food coloring.  Around them, I put some tea lights in some small glass cylinders to try to light up the colors.  I like the way this turned out and my family really liked it too!

On each side of the centerpiece, I put some simple glass candleholders with white candles, some pier 1 flower bowls with tealights, and my Ikea white pillar candle holders with white candles

The Plate Breakdown is fairly simple.  Pink, turquoise and lime green chargers from Michaels, Dollar store white dinner plates and dollar store white dinner bowls to match.  The white napkins also had turquoise, lime green and pink bling napkin rings.  I alternated so that each place setting had a different color napkin ring than the charger.

We had my awesome in-laws in town for the weekend so they joined us for our Sunday Family Dinner before they headed home.  It was great to have them and I loved being able to share this special meal with them.

 

 

Thanks so much for joining me for another Tablescape Tuesday!  I hope you have a wonderful week and I hope to see you again real soon!  =)

 

 

 

FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA #17!!!

Hey guys!

Ok, I totally dropped the ball and wasn't able to get this up for us because of the 4th of July.   SO sorry about that!

But....if you're still up for a Fiesta!  Let's start now!   Better late than never, right???

Let's Party!!!

WHADDA WE EATIN' WEDNESDAY! Recipe for Easy Enchilada Casserole in the crock pot!

Hi all!

Welcome to another WHADDA WE EATIN' WEDNESDAY!!!

Today I want to share with you a GREAT recipe I found on Pinterest recently (Yes, I pretty much am making almost every new recipe from Pinterest!  lol)

This was shared by the Crockin' Girls and is a super easy and delicious recipe for Taquito Enchilada Casserole!

Here's What you'll need...

1 box of frozen Taquitos - (24 count for a larger crock pot, 15 for a medium one)
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of rotel  (10 oz)
1 can of tomato sauce (8 oz)  (you don't need this if you're using the smaller crock pot with the 15 taquitos)
1 cup of sour cream  (not the French Onion Dip as pictured..lol)
2 cups shredded Mexican (or cheddar) cheese

Spray the bottom of your crock pot.

Place the taquitos into the bottom of the crock pot.   In a medium bowl, mix the soup, rotel, tomato sauce and sour cream. 



Then, pour the mixture over the taquitos, then top with the shredded cheese and cook on low for 3 hours.


This makes a super yummy weeknight meal with a little kick!  

No, your eyes are not deceiving you...I made this recipe twice...once with my black crock pot and once with my white crock pot...haha!  The after photos are with the white one because I forgot to get pictures the first time I made it!

Our family really likes this casserole and it is sooooo easy!  I love that!

I hope you enjoy this if you make it!  I know we loved it!  My daughter was the only one who thought it was a little too spicy, but she still ate it and didn't put up a fuss. Next time I'll use the MILD Rotel for her, or just used diced tomatoes without the green chiles.

Thanks again for stopping by!  Hope to see you again soon!

TABLESCAPE TUESDAY! Patriotic July 4th Tablescape

Hi all!

Happy TABLESCAPE TUESDAY!!!!

I hope you had a great weekend and are ready for the 4th of July!  It's still kind of blowing my mind that the year is half over already!

For today's Tablescape Tuesday, I wanted to share a fun table for our most recent Sunday Family Dinner.


In case you happen to be wondering.....I'd love to take a short minute to explain what our "Sunday Family Dinners" are all about for those of you who are seeing my blog for the first time...If you've read this before, feel free to skip this part...
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We started a new family tradition in January 2013 (a New Years' Resolution) that I hope continues even after the kids are grown.

"SUNDAY FAMILY DINNERS!"

We pretty much have dinner together as a family most nights, but on Sundays, we have a special dinner in the dining room as opposed to the kitchen table, where we normally eat.

I get out the fine china and candles and make a special meal and so far, it has been something we look forward to each week.

Then once a month, we invite some of our extended family to join us for a Sunday family dinner.

It's also been giving me a chance to do lots of new TABLESCAPES..haha!

To see my previous tablescapes from other Sunday Family Dinners, you can click here:

Sunday Family Dinner #1 - Red and Blue Toile
S.F.D.#2 - Black, White and Silver
S.F.D.#3 - Winter Woods With White
S.F.D.#4 - The "Royal Treatment"
S.F.D.#5 - Super Bowl Table
S.F.D. #6 - Mardi Gras Table
S.F.D. #7 - Spring is Springing Up
S.F.D. #8 - "Apple of My Eye"
S.F.D. #9 - "Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss"
S.F.D. #10 - The "KNego" Tablescape (Designed by my 9 year old son)
S.F.D. #11 - The St. Patrick's Day Tablescape
S.F.D. #12 - Last-Minute Lavender Tablescape
S.F.D. #13 - 3 Easter Tables
S.F.D. #14 - Wrapped In Love Tablescape
S.F.D. #15 - Wrapped Up in Family Tablescape
S.F.D. #16 - Orange You Ready for a Picnic Tablescape
S.F.D. #17 - Barbies and the Pink Shoes (Designed by my 6 year old daughter)
S.F.D. #18 - Simply Nautical but Nice Tablescape
S.F.D. #19 - Memorial Day Americana Table
S.F.D. #20 - Froggie Went a' Courtin' Tablescape
S.F.D. #21 - Simple Father's Day Tablescape

 Because I'm on a budget but love to switch up my decor for the various tablescapes each week, I'm decorating my tables almost entirely on BARGAINS....finds from the Dollar Stores, Thrift Stores, or regular stores with sales or clearance items. _________________________

So, this past Sunday Family dinner was all about the 4th of July!   I wanted a different feel than my Memorial Day Tablescape, (which you can see HERE) with more of an "Americana" feel...and decided to go for a little more modern Red, white and blue!

I Found some pretty blue and white flowered fabric at Walmart a few months ago, and got 2 half-yards of it.   Then I has some dollar store scarves, so I used the red one for the center runner.

I found these cute red, white and blue plates at Goodwill a few months ago for 50 cents each, so I thought I'd add those to the table.   They went great with the red charger from Walmart, and my dollar store white plates.  

I bought two strands of patriotic star garland at Dollar tree, so I decided to use one to decorate the chandelier, and one to spread across the table.  I was hoping for a more hap-hazard look to it, so I didn't flatten it down while on the table.  



My centerpieces on the table were a little more simple because I didn't want any extra tall pieces getting in the way from everyone being able to see eachother.  (We were supposed to have company come for the dinner, but they had to cancel at the last minute.)  I just a used a lantern I got on clearance at Target and I added some dollar store candles and red and blue glass pieces.  On both sides of the lantern were a few dollar store glass candleholders with red and blue glass pieces and a white votive candle, and two martini glasses turned upside down with red candles on top (a very easy and inexpensive idea for some tall candleholders)


So, there you have it.  I liked the way this table came out.  I also loved that it was a very inexpensive table to put together!

Thanks so much for joining me for another TABLESCAPE TUESDAY!  Have a great day and I hope to see you again soon!!!  =)
 

FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA Link Party #16 with features!

Hi everyone!

Well, it's that time again...time for another FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA!

Come post your creativity with us!!!

But first, a few features from last week's fiesta!

Robin from Fluster Buster shares 33 uses for Aluminum Foil in her recent post!

This is pretty awesome...there were a few in here I'd never heard of or thought to try!


For a light summer lunch, why not try Lizbeth from Just Dip It in Chocolate's delicious-looking chicken, pecan and pear salad in a wrap!

Oh my goodness..this looks so yummy!

Great posts, ladies! 

Ok...Onto the party!!!   Can't wait to see what you're up to this week!   =D

See you at 8pm ET!!!
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TABLESCAPE TUESDAY - Great 4th of July Tablescapes!

Hi all!!!

Happy TABLESCAPE TUESDAY!!!

Well, I was a crazy busy woman on Sunday and didn't get any pictures of our table for our Sunday Family Dinner.  D'OH!

Sooooo, instead of showcasing one of my tablescapes, I thought I'd share with you some inspiration from some fellow bloggers for the upcoming 4th of July!!!

These Tablescapes are some of my favorite patriotic Tables!  Hope you enjoy!

I just love this one from Susan at Between Naps on the Porch.  Everything she does is pretty much awesome! 

Do you see the little cupcakes with "fireworks" on top sitting on little chairs????  Sooo Creative!!!


Here's a Feminine Patriotic Table by Joe Nye from his book "Flair"

I just love the look of the toile and those red and blue glasses!  Gorgeous!


And, lastly, Jenna from The Painted Apron created this beautiful table on her patio right on the water!   What a lovely setting, and a lovely table!

I hope these tablescapes have inspired your creativity to create a lovely table for your 4th of July Holiday!  I know they have certainly inspired me!!!

Also, here's a patriotic table I created a while back, since I haven't yet created one for the 4th.  (you'll see that one next week...lol)

Thanks so much for joining me for another TABLESCAPE TUESDAY!!!  Have a great week and I hope to see you again soon!!!

FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA Link Party #15 with Features!

Hello friends and fellow bloggers!!!

Welcome to yet another fun installment of the FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA Link Party!

We're a small, but fun bunch of link partiers here with some GREAT ideas to share!

Here are a two great features you may have missed from last week's Link Party!

Desiree from YOUR CRAFTY FRIEND shared this easy and adorable Jute Sign Tutorial

How cute is this???  And it looks simple to put together.  Gonna have to try this one!


Leigh Anne from YOUR HOMEBASED MOM  shared her SUPER YUMMY-Looking Raspberry and Blueberry Crisp

I know my husband would LOVE this recipe!   Looks so delish!!!

Congrats to those featured!  

Now, onto this week's party!   I am looking forward to see what you have to share this week!!!
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